LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person accused of orchestrating the 1996 homicide of Tupac Shakur pleaded not responsible Thursday to a cost related to a jail battle, invoking his proper to a speedy trial.
Final week, a Clark County grand jury indicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 61, on a cost of battery by a prisoner and problem to battle for an incident in December.
Davis’ invocation and plea Thursday means a trial within the case may start as early as April.
Davis, who faces a homicide cost in Shakur’s loss of life, has publicly mentioned he was sitting within the entrance passenger seat of the automobile concerned within the 1996 homicide close to the Las Vegas Strip.
Davis has remained on the Clark County Detention Heart since his arrest in September 2023. Paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators first obtained reveal Davis allegedly fought with one other inmate, Rochlon Hamilton, 53, on Dec. 23 the place each “[engaged] in mutual combat by grappling and throwing closed fist strikes.” Davis allegedly grabbed Hamilton in a headlock.
Davis’ lawyer, Carl Arnold, has mentioned Davis was the sufferer of the assault. Hamilton faces related prices for the Dec. 23 incident.
Davis’ homicide trial was scheduled to start in March. Davis’ subsequent court docket listening to on Feb. 18 ought to embody arguments for going ahead with that date or delaying it.
